Toy riding animal



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Application filed November To all whom it may concern:

,Be it known that l, LUDWIG Keenan, a citizen of the tiernian public and resident of hilunich, Bavaria, Germany, have invented certain new and useful improve nicnts in following is a specification.

the pairs of :t'ront and hind'legs, which are oscillatingly secured on the body and are connected with each other by means of a bracc-rod, are provided with ratchet wheels.

The locomotion of these toy-riding-animals is etlected bv stretchin out and then a ain b w b contracting the pairs of legs.

My invention now relates to a toy-riding animal of the kind described, but is char' acterized in view of the known devices by a simplliied driving mechanism, as all inter or mechanisms are dispensed with, with.

out however dil'i'iinishing in any manner the rigidity or carrylng capacity oi the body. of the animal. A further advantage o1 the subject matterojt the invention consists of the insignificant consumption of power for the locomotion oi the animal and inthe comfortable kind of motion corresponding to the riding motion, whereby premature fatigation is avoided and an. effect. is ob.

tained,. which promotes the. purpose of amusement as well in amusing ing regard.

In order to obtain the before. advantages, the novelty of invention consists therein. that the front part of the animahwhich front part is composed ofthe front legs and the neck,- is formed as a whole, and is pivotally secured to the body, said front part is ti urther connected to the brace-rod leading to the rear end or the animal in such a n'ianner, thatthe trout part serves as drinng member, which can be operated by aperson sitting-on the animal.

several embodiments oi? the subject matter of my invention are illustrated,

Fig. 1 and 2 show the toy-riding-animal in side view in different operative positions. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line AB of 1. Fig. at shows in diagrammatieal manner a "further embodiment of the. invention and Toy Riding Animals, of which the '"oye-iding animals are known. in which as in sportmentioned in the accompanying drawing; in which a, 1920. eel-mi no. 22,697.

Fig. 5 illustratesa constructive detail.

"The body o of the riding-animal, which connected with each other by means of br'ce-rod e which ls arranged within engages with. the ifront part b somewhat ieetoi the animal are provided in the known manner with rollers f, and also with brakebloclts g, which'are pivotally, connected to stick to the periphery of the rollers. the brake-blocks are to some extent slidable in slots]:- ot the before mentioned metal strips.

In the front partb a guide-rod 7c is rotat ably arrangei'l, said guide-rod having at its upper end aflhandle l, by means of which the trout-wheels can be guided or steered.

ingeanimal is as follows:

In the positionof rest the toy-ridinganithe neck form the front part b, which rear pivot pin 61; the parts b and 0 the interior, of the box a. The brace rod a above the front pivotpin cl,]so that the.

" upper'lever arm of the front part 6 forms 'a tavorably acting lever transmission. The.

The operationof'my improved toy-rid the roller bearings by means of metal strips. in order to prevent that the brake-blocks mal occupiesvthe position shown in FigLf hinto, which position the animal is autoe.

inatically moved by the spiral springm,

the ends of which are secured to the front part and-to the rear end. If a person is Sitting on the animal, thelatter is displaced into, the stretched position by the load of the rider such a manner, that the front partand rear endthen occupy the same slanting angular position, as may be seen from Fig. 2, The parts 7) and chew engage with, stops it, provided within the interior of the body a, said stops limiting the oscilisting movement, of the parts 7) and o. causing the toy-ridingr-animal to assume the stretched position onlythe front part b is displaced, as the rear end 0 engages with the brake blocks 9 lying behind the rollers f and is retained in position by the brakeblocks. If the weight of the rider should not be sufficient for obtaining the complete stretching position, the latter can be established by drawing back the front part .b by means of the handle Z. Thei'ront part is then again pushed forward, turning around its rollers 7, which are now retained inposition by their brake-blocks g, while the rear end 0 is not prevented from a forward movement 'and can roll forwardly, until the new position of rest is. reached, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The forward movement. is accomplished by pushing forward the handle, whereby the front part of the toy-rlding animal 1s caused to turn around its rollers f, a rearward movement of which is prevented by the brake-blocks g; this forward movement of the front is transmitted to the rear end of the animal by means of the brace rod 6. The toy-animal accordingly during the reciprocating move-' ment of its front part has traveled the distance lV. By the uniform operation of the frontpart Z) in this manner, a quick and shockless rolling on of the toy-riding animal is obtained, the distance W being consider ably increased at the rolling movement by the accelerated mass oitanimaland rider.

For the purpose, of traveling backward, it

is shown in Fig. 4 in full lines.

is only necessary to oscillate the brakeblooks'g simply towards the other side of the rollers 7,01' for traveling on snow in stead of the rollers short runners f can be provided (Fig. 5), which can be locked by means of a spreader g.

In Fig.4 a form of construction is illustrated, in which the front part and rear end are connected with each other by means of straps or tapes 0, go, the short tape 0 being located above and the longer tape p below the brace-rod 6, so that the last named tape p inthe position-of rest of the animal is slaclzened, while the tape 0 is tensioned, as

thereupon following stretching position the upper tape 0 1s slackened and the lower tape 79 is tensioned, see the position shown in dottedflines in- Fig. 4c. The provision of special stops n canbe dispensed with in thisfOlm of construction. By suitably arranging the-pivot pins d iniregard to each In the 7 other, the movements can be adapted to the peculiarities of various animals.

Having thus particularly described the nature or my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is: r 1

1. Toy-ridingenimal comprising in oornbination a. box-shaped body, a front part, consisting oi the pair of front-legs and the neck of the animal, a rear end, consisting of the pair of rear legs of the animal, said front partand rear end being pivotally connected to the body of the animal, and rigid means for connecting said front part and rear end with each other, said connectin means'arranged within the interior or said boxshaped body engaging with the front part above its point or pivotal connection and with the rear end below its point of pivotal connection. V

2. A toy-riding-animal, comprising in combination, a box-shaped body, a front part and a rear end, both pivotally connected to the body of the animal, rollers at the lower ends of said front part and rear end, brake-blocks, pivo'tally and to some extent slidably connected to said rollers, said brakeblocirs being adapted to lock said foot-rollers in position, a guide-bar provided in the rollers o iron:- izart, a handio at them;- per end of. said guidebar and adapted'to be moved back and fort-hand to transmit thereby a reciprocal movement to said front part, in case the weight or" the rider is not "suiiici'en't {or the locomotion of the animal, 

